This document discusses Newton's third law of motion. It defines Newton's third law as forces always acting in equal but opposite pairs called action-reaction force pairs. Examples are provided such as a person jumping and pushing down on the ground, which then pushes up on the person in reaction. Another example is a rocket launching, where the exhaust gas pushes down on the engine in the action force, and the engine pushes up on the gas in the reaction force, providing thrust. The document also explains weightlessness in terms of free fall, where an astronaut in a falling elevator would feel weightless to a scale according to Newton's third law.
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Newton’s 3rd law (2)
2. Motivator:- Dr. Bhagwan Sawant
Guided By:- Mrs. Anjali Sonawane
Student’s Name:- Saurabh Sunil Patil
Standard:- 9th
Division:- C
Roll No:- 9123
Subject:- Science
5. • Newton’s third law :
• To each and every action, there is equal and
opposite reaction
• Explanation
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Newton’s Third Law
• According to Newton’s third law of motion, forces
always act in equal but opposite pairs.
Definition:-
6. • You constantly use action-
reaction force pairs as you
move about.
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Newton’s Third Law
• When you jump, you push
down on the ground.
• The ground then pushes up
on you. It is this upward
force that pushes you into
the air.
Action and Reaction
Forces Don’t Cancel
7. Large and Small Objects
• When you walk
forward, you push
backward on the
ground.
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Newton’s Third Law
• Your shoe pushes
Earth backward, and
Earth pushes your
shoe forward.
8. A Rocket Launch
• When the rocket fuel is ignited, a hot gas is
produced.
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Newton’s Third Law
• As the gas molecules
collide with the inside
engine walls, the
walls exert a force
that pushes them out
of the bottom of the
engine.
9. • This downward push is the action force.
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Newton’s Third Law
• The reaction force is the upward push on the
rocket engine by the gas molecules.
• This is the thrust that propels the rocket upward.
10. Weightlessness
• You might have seen pictures of astronauts floating
inside a space shuttle as it orbits Earth.
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Newton’s Third Law
• The astronauts are said to be weightless.
• Yet the force of gravity on the shuttle is almost 90
percent as large as at Earth’s surface.
• Newton’s laws of motion can explain why the
astronauts float as if there were no forces acting
on them.
11. Measuring Weight
• When you stand on a
scale, your weight pushes
down on the scale.
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Newton’s Third Law
• This causes the scale
pointer to point to your
weight.
12. • At the same time, by Newton’s third law the scale
pushes up on you with a force equal to your weight.
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Newton’s Third Law
• This fore balances the downward pull of gravity
on you.
13. Free Fall and Weightlessness
• Now suppose you were
standing on a scale in an
elevator that is falling.
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Newton’s Third Law
• A falling object is in free fall
when the only force acting on
the force is gravity.
• You and the scale are both in
free fall.
14. • Because the only force acting
on you is gravity, the scale no
longer is pushing up on you.
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Newton’s Third Law
• According to Newton’s third
law, you no longer push down
on the scale.
15. • So the scale pointer stays at
zero and you seem to be
weightless.
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Newton’s Third Law
• Weightlessness is the condition
that occurs in free fall when the
weight of an object seems to be
zero.